Blog Archive
July 2010
Sat Jul 31
Beating Caprica Withdrawal 3: The SDCC Experience
by Teresa Jusino
Best & Worst Job Prospects in the Urban Fantasy Economy for 2011
by Chris Castle
That New Kid Smell: The Allure of the New Kid at School
by Shannon Delaney
Fri Jul 30
The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle
by John Klima
The Boys are Back
by Marjorie Liu
Paranormal Romance Grab Bag You-Know-What-Friday-Means!
by Megan Messinger
With One Magic Word, Part Four: Miracleman, The Golden Slumber
by George Khoury
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Winter’s Heart, Part 6
by Leigh Butler
A is for Artist: C
by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon
Queering SFF: Interview with Elizabeth Bear
by Lee Mandelo
City as Character
by Suzanne Johnson
LotR re-read: Return of the King V.10, “The Black Gate Opens”
by Kate Nepveu
Holy Retro DC Universe, Batman!
by Irene Gallo
Thu Jul 29
The Way of Kings, Chapters 9 and 11 (Excerpt)
by Brandon Sanderson
From Cavemen to Manga and Beyond: Expressing Ourselves Through Comics
by Anne Elizabeth
The Legend of Neil is back!
by Chris Greenland
Doctor Who S5, EP11: “The Lodger”
by Teresa Jusino
Video games aren’t just for boys: The new booming market for women
by Melissa Heidrich
Spinning round in Fairyland: Merry Go Round in Oz
by Mari Ness
A great castle made of sea: Why hasn’t Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell been more influential?
by Jo Walton
Avatar Rewatch: “The Cave of Two Lovers” (episode 202)
by Jordan Hamessley
Get to Know Your Hugo NomineesVoting Ends This Week!
by Tor.com
2010 Hugo Awards Best Novelette Nominees
by John Klima
Becoming Human Again: Rebecca Maizel Discusses Her Upcoming Debut Novel Infinite Days
by Rebecca Maizel
Smokin’ Stubbs! Or, all our readers are special, occasionally some are specialer
by Irene Gallo
Wed Jul 28
Fashion Dos and Dont’s for the Paranormal Heroine
by Kate Perry
Wednesday Comics Pull-List: Mad About Batman
by Annie Gala and Chris Greenland
The Rocketry Blog
by Irene Gallo
2010 Hugo Awards – Best Novella Nominees
by John Klima
The Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Gardens of the Moon, Chapters 6 and 7
by Amanda Rutter and Bill Capossere
An Interview with Leanne Renee Hieber
by Ron Hogan
Comic Con Roundup
by Alex Brown
The Cage
by A.M. Dellamonica
Tue Jul 27
It’s All Charlaine’s Fault. (And Jim’s, Laurell’s, oh, and Joss Whedon’s)
by C.T. Adams
Doktor Sleepless and its Ideas
by Lee Mandelo
Word to the Wired: Personal Advice, Science Fiction Style
by Ellen B. Wright
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Winter’s Heart, Part 5
by Leigh Butler
Embodying Mercy Thompson In Person and In Paint
by Irene Gallo
What about Love: Paranormal Romance, Teens and Happily Ever Afters
by Shannon Delaney
Mon Jul 26
I Blame Buffy
by Cynthia Eden
Finding Your Writing Tribe
by Kelley Armstrong
A novel in sonnets: Vikram Seth’s The Golden Gate
by Jo Walton
Cowboy Bebop Re-watch: “Jamming With Edward!”
by Madeline Ashby
Writing the Paranormal
by L.A. Banks
Carrie Vaughn’s big weekKitty Goes to War and Discord’s Apple
by Mark Graham
Comic Con Day Three: The End Is Nigh
by Alex Brown
Fangs for Hire
by Jenna Black
Sun Jul 25
Comic Con Day Two: Lines, Obnoxious Security Guards, Lines, Robert Kirkman, Lines, C-List Celebrities, and Lines
by Alex Brown
OK, where do I start with this? P.
by Jo Walton
Sat Jul 24
Super Kate
by Kate Perry
Fri Jul 23
Imagine
by Heather Webber
The language of stones: Terri Windling’s The Wood Wife
by Jo Walton
Ménage à Paranormal Romance Grab Bag Giveaway Trois
by Megan Messinger
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Winter’s Heart, Part 4
by Leigh Butler
A is for Artist: B
by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon
Comic-Con Day One: Caprica, British invasions, ogling Michael C. Hall, and more
by Alex Brown
Down This Gravel Road: A Look at Contemporary Rural Fantasy
by Deborah Coates
Queering SFF: A Book of Tongues by Gemma Files
by Lee Mandelo
Thu Jul 22
Because It’s Shiny
by Shiloh Walker
Parliamentary Democracy with Martians: Robert Heinlein’s Double Star
by Jo Walton
Audioslice: Olivia Munn’s Suck It, Wonder Woman!
by Liz Maverick
What Urban Fantasy Means to Me
by Susan Sizemore
With One Magic Word, Part Three: Apocalypse Please, The Eclipse Years
by George Khoury
Frequency Rotation: Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip, “I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper”
by Jason Heller
Repetition in Fairyland: Hidden Valley in Oz
by Mari Ness
Avatar Giveaway! Plus, “The Avatar State” (episode 201)
by Matt London
Hugo Awards 2010 Best Short Story
by John Klima
Eve of Sin City
by Sylvia Day
Wed Jul 21
Book Review: Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief
by Juliana Weiss-Roessler
Sex and Urban Planning: Samuel R. Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
by Jo Walton
New Avatar: The Last Airbender series
by Jordan Hamessley
Wednesday Comics on Tor.com: Facing Realities
by Annie Gala and Chris Greenland
Download Wallpapers for Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings, Illustrated by Artist Michael Whelan
by Tor.com
The Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Gardens of the Moon, Chapters 4 and 5
by Amanda Rutter and Bill Capossere
I Speak for the Trolls
by Kate Perry
True Blood episode review: “Trouble”
by Theresa DeLucci
Beating Caprica Withdrawal 2: Electric Boogaloo
by Teresa Jusino
Bogieman
by Carole Nelson Douglas
Tue Jul 20
Stubby the Rocket wallpapers
by Irene Gallo
It Is What They Call the Best of the Best: Two Years of Tor.com Highlights
by Tor.com
Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour: You’ll Always Be My Clash At Demonhead
by Chris Greenland
Firefly Re-watch: Serenity: Those Left Behind Part 2
by Richard Fife
The Crime Syndicate: the Evil Justice League
by Rajan Khanna
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Winter’s Heart, Part 3
by Leigh Butler
How to Throw an Evil Twin Party
by Bridget McGovern and Liz Gorinsky
How Tor.com Is Like (And Not Like) A Two-Year-Old
by Idiots Books
Mon Jul 19
ReaderCon Panel Recap: “How I Wrote The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”
by Andrew Liptak
Review: Inception
by Genevieve Valentine
LotR re-read: Return of the King V.9, “The Last Debate”
by Kate Nepveu
Is Anybody Out There? edited by Nick Gevers and Marty Halpern
by John Klima
Text me that hex, please? Kthxbai!
by Alyx Dellamonica
Launchpad Workshop Recap: Four Fun Things About the Universe
by Genevieve Valentine
Feed Your Reader, revisited
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: The Magic of Meh
by Alex Brown
A Stroke of Dumb Luck
by Shiloh Walker
Sun Jul 18
ReaderCon Panel Recap: “Everybody Loves DirigiblesScience For Tomorrow’s Fiction”
by Andrew Liptak
Hugo Nominee for Best Novel: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
by Lee Mandelo
OK, where do I start with that? O.
by Jo Walton
Sat Jul 17
ReaderCon Panel Recap: “Folklore and its Discontents”
by Andrew Liptak
Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man
by GD Falksen
Fri Jul 16
ReaderCon Panel Recap: “The New And Improved Future of Magazines”
by Andrew Liptak
Paranormal Romance Grab Bag Giveaway II: The Grabbening
by Megan Messinger
Frequency Rotation: Neil Young, “Sample and Hold”
by Jason Heller
Queering SFF: At Readercon 21
by Lee Mandelo
A is for Artist Custom Index
by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Winter’s Heart, Part 2
by Leigh Butler
A is for Artist: A
by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon
Quandaries
by Kate Perry
Immigrant Fantasy: Susan Palwick’s The Necessary Beggar
by Jo Walton
Blogging from Launchpad Workshop: Science!
by Genevieve Valentine
Thu Jul 15
ReaderCon Panel Recap: “Global Warming and Science Fiction”
by Andrew Liptak
With One Magic Word, Part Two: The Miraculous Revival of Marvelman
by George Khoury
Star Trek Re-watch: “Assignment: Earth”
by Torie Atkinson and Eugene Myers
Real World Research or Building a Better Werewolf
by Carrie Vaughn
Performing in Fairyland: The Shaggy Man of Oz
by Mari Ness
The fantasy geography of America: Terry Bisson’s Talking Man
by Jo Walton
Cowboy Bebop Re-watch: “Waltz for Venus”
by Madeline Ashby
The Heinlein Biography Approacheth: An Announcement, some Pointers, and a digressive Disquisition on the Nuanced Differences between two Web Sites sharing in common a certain Widely-Recognized Brand
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Fare Thee Well
by Cathy Clamp
Wed Jul 14
ReaderCon Panel Recap: “Citizens of the World, Citizens of the Universe”
by Andrew Liptak
How I Started Reading Paranormal Romance
by Ron Hogan
Wednesday Comics Round-Up: Dinosaurs vs. Sci-Fi
by Annie Gala and Chris Greenland
The Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Gardens of the Moon, Chapters 2 and 3
by Amanda Rutter and Bill Capossere
Crossroads of Twilight ebook cover by Greg Ruth
by Irene Gallo
Doctor Who S5, EP10: “Vincent and The Doctor”
by Teresa Jusino
Tue Jul 13
ReaderCon Panel Recap: “New England, At Home to the Unheimlich”
by Andrew Liptak
Firefly Re-watch: Serenity: Those Left Behind Part 1
by Richard Fife
Rachel Swirsky liveblogs Launch Pad
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Winter’s Heart, Part 1
by Leigh Butler
The Lasting Appeal of Urban Fantasy
by Laura Anne Gilman
How’s our driving?
by Irene Gallo
Become a member of Tor.com and get a John Scalzi story a week early
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Mon Jul 12
ReaderCon Panel Recap: “Interstitial Then, Genre Now”
by Andrew Liptak
True Blood episode review: “9 Crimes”
by Theresa DeLucci
Before the Internet We Expressed Ourselves Through Vans
by Chris Greenland
Prince versus the internet
by Jason Henninger
Texan Ghost Fantasy: Sean Stewart’s Perfect Circle
by Jo Walton
Resident Ghost
by Kate Perry
The President’s Brain is Missing
by John Scalzi
The Ghost of Leadville
by Jeanne C. Stein
2010 Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards announced
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Sun Jul 11
OK, where do I start with that? N.
by Jo Walton
Fri Jul 9
Revisiting the Tramp Stamp Phenomenon
by Irene Gallo
Paranormal Romance Grab Bag Giveaway!
by Megan Messinger
Editorial Roundtable: Paranormal Romance Heroines and Heroes
by Melissa Ann Singer
Dom Testa’s The Web of Titanthe second Galahad book
by Mark Graham
Reexamining the old-school RPGs: Top Secret
by David Williams
A man and a house: Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger
by Jo Walton
Thu Jul 8
Wednesday Comics on Tor.com: Large Helpings of Revenge
by Chris Greenland
Star Trek Re-Watch: “Bread and Circuses”
by Eugene Myers and Torie Atkinson
The Fifth Column in Fairyland: The Magical Mimics of Oz
by Mari Ness
With One Magic Word: The Miracleman/Marvelman Saga: Part One
by George Khoury
The Way of Kings: Chapters 4, 5, and 6 (Excerpt)
by Brandon Sanderson
Audioslice Exclusive! Listen to Chapters 4, 5 & 6 of The Way of Kings
by Liz Maverick
Interview: Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, Creators of the Original Televised Avatar: The Last Airbender
by Jordan Hamessley and Matt London
Malazan Empire and Michael Komarck wallpapers
by Irene Gallo
The Success of Paranormals: Why is the Genre Taking a Big Bite of Publishing Sales?
by Caridad Piñeiro
Time Control: Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity
by Jo Walton
Wed Jul 7
Frequency Rotation: Rasputina, “Holocaust of Giants”
by Jason Heller
Redemption in Indigo (Excerpt)
by Karen Lord
Signs and portents
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
The Warping of Young Minds (Including My Own)
by Cathy Clamp
The Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Gardens of the Moon, Prologue and Chapter 1
by Amanda Rutter and Bill Capossere
Is it Urban Fantasy? For Example: Charles Stross’ Laundry Files
by Lee Mandelo
Tue Jul 6
The Last Airbender: Caucasians Not In Their Element?
by Teresa Jusino
Homeless and Magical: Megan Lindholm’s Wizard of the Pigeons
by Jo Walton
Firefly Re-watch: Series in Reflection
by Richard Fife
Announcing Sharon Lee & Steve Miller’s “Expanding Universe Contest”
by Heather Massey
Matsumoto Is BackOh Yes
by Lee Mandelo
Timeline of a Trend
by Carrie Vaughn
Olga
by C.T. Adams
Mon Jul 5
Preview: The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
by Tor.com
Five Short Stories with Useless Time Travel
by Jo Walton
Batporn: The Dark Knight Gets Down and Dirty
by Bridget McGovern
Why I Won’t Be Reading the New Wonder Woman (And Why It Doesn’t Matter)
by Tristan Elwell
Sun Jul 4
OK, where do I start with that? M
by Jo Walton
Sat Jul 3
I’m Beginning to Suspect Our Hoverboards Will Never Arrive
by Chris Greenland
Fri Jul 2
Fireworks! Chickens! Patriotism! Weirdos! Happy Fourth from Tor.com!
by Tor.com
Whitley Strieber’s The Omega Point: Beyond 2012
by Mark Graham
Eclipse: A Handy Review of the Creepy Stalker Boyfriend Saga
by Alex Brown
Spin-offs I’d like to see
by Jason Henninger
The Last Airbender: The Greatest Fan Film of All Time
by Jordan Hamessley and Matt London
Let the Right One In: The Remakening
by Bridget McGovern
Thu Jul 1
A Softer World 14
by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau
Scavenge: Being a review of Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker
by Elizabeth Bear
Frequency Rotation: Jermaine Jackson, “Escape From The Planet Of The Ant Men”
by Jason Heller
Star Trek Re-Watch: “The Ultimate Computer”
by Torie Atkinson and Eugene Myers
Gliding By in Fairyland: Lucky Bucky in Oz
by Mari Ness
Childhood Dreams and Science Ninjas
by Jason Henninger
The Society of Time: John Brunner’s Times Without Number
by Jo Walton
Jonah Hex Wanted Poster
by Ross MacDonald